ONAGRACE/E. 21 



E. obscurum, but possibly it may have been taken partly from 

 E. obscurum and partly from the small mountain state of E. mon- 

 tanum. A new plate has been drawn from a Braemar specimen, 

 sent by Mr. C. Bailey expressly for the present edition. 



Chickweed-leaved Willow-herb. 



Geraiau, Dostenblcittrigcr Scltotenweiderick. 



SPECIESO)XII.— EPILOBIUM AN AG ALLIDIFOLIUM. 



Lam. 

 Plate DVI. 



nab. Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. II. Vol. XVII. p. 312. 



E. alpinum, Xoch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 2G8. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. I. p. 577. 

 E. alpinum, var. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 144. Ijenth. Handbook Brit. Fl. 



p. 209. 



Stolons produced in summer, appearing above the ground, 

 elongated, slender, with distant pairs of obovate green leaves. Stem 

 ascending or erect, generally decumbent at the base, simple or with 

 a few branches below, with 2 hairy lines, otherwise sub-glabrous. 

 Leaves mostly opposite, shortly stalked, lanceolate or elliptical- 

 lanceolate, gradually attenuated at the base into the petiole, tapering 

 to and blunt at the apex, faintly and very remotely callously-den- 

 ticulate. Bracts opposite or rarely alternate, crowded together at 

 the top of the stem. Buds obtuse. Elowers solitary, or if 2 or 3 

 together crowded at the top of the stem, drooping until after 

 expansion. Calyx-segments oblong-obtuse. Petals about a quarter 

 as long again as the calyx-segments. Pod sub-glabrous, on a very 

 long pedicel when fully ripe. Seeds obovate-ovoid, testa scarcely 

 produced beyond the nucleus of the seed (there being only a slight 

 raised rim over the top of the seed on the inner side), attenuated 

 and acute below, very faintly roughened with almost imperceptible 

 tubercles. Plant sub-glabrous, rarely somewhat pubescent in the 

 upper part with short curled hairs. 



In wet places, especially by the sides of rills on mountains. 

 Apparently common on those of the Scottish Highlands. Mj 

 specimens are all from the Braemar Mountains, Aberdeenshire ; 

 but Professor Babington says it also occurs on the Clova Moun- 

 tains, Eorfarshire ; Ben Lomond, Stirlingshire ; Ben Voirlich, 

 and the Breadalbane Mountains, Perthshire. Mr. Baker informs 

 me he has seen it from the Cheviots, where it was first found by 



